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Rwanda has become a curiosity as an African state . The mere mention of its name tugs the memory: colonial tragedy, ethnic violence,...
Having been endorsed as the only viable candidate to battle Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential elections, Joe Biden was subsequently browbeaten...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has again deliberated over the thorn-bloodied subject of Israeli-Palestinian relations. Its latest advisory...
The International Court of Justice has again deliberated over the thorn-bloodied subject of Israeli-Palestinian relations . Its latest ...
Bring out the bon bons, the bubbles, and the praise filled memoranda for that old alliance . At the three-quarter century mark...
Politics and facts are not necessarily good dinner companions. Both often stray from the same table, taking up with other, more suitable...
His entire set of teeth, and gums, must be gold plated by now. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has decided to let the world, and more...
As a nation, the United States, as if we did not already know, is convulsed. Paranoid and divided, giddy with conspiracy and deranged by a...
The dishonour board is long. Advisors from Australia, account chasing electoral strategists, former Australian cabinet ministers happy to ...
When does it stop? Australia’s close ties with Israel continue to hold despite the incessant slaughter taking place in the Gaza strip, with the...
Was there a ny need for this? Australia’s Albanese government, harried by the conservative opposition for going soft on pro-Palestinian...
Australia now has its first antisemitism envoy, a title that can be misread for darkly comic effect. But is there any need for one? The Anthony...
“This is the inflection point,” warned Nigel Farage last month as he assumed the reins of power at the incarnated Reform UK party ,...
Few would have staked their political fortune, let alone any other sort of re ward , on a return of the British Conservatives on July 4. The...
The US Supreme Court has much to answer for. In the genius of republican government, it operates as overseer and balancer to the executive and...
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, is now back in Australia, having endured the cramped digs in London’s Ecuadorian embassy for seven years to the...
Julian Assange of WikiLeaks fame is now back in the country of his birth, having endured conditions of captivity ranging from ...
In his seminal work on modern slavery, Kevin Bales does away with certain, antiquated concept s . In its insidious, older form, one ...
“There are three sources of power in Chile: Pinochet, God and DINA.” Chilean intelligence officer , remarks to a US military...
The WikiLeaks project was always going to put various noses out of joint in the journalistic profession. Soaked and blighted by sloth, easily bought,...
One of the longest sagas of political persecution is coming to its terminus. That is, if you believe in final chapters. Nothing about the fate of...
It would be the political persecution of the 21 st Century. A publicly orchestrated campaign of mobbing, libelling and black balling by the most...
One of the longest sagas of political persecution is coming to its terminus. That is, if you believe in final chapters. Nothing about the fate of...
“There are three sources of power in Chile: Pinochet, God and DINA.” ( Chilean intelligence officer , remarks to a US military...
In his seminal work on modern slavery, Kevin Bales does away with certain, antiquated concept s . In its insidious, older form, one ...
Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is unhappy. Not so much with the Palestinians, whom he sees as terroristic, dispensable and a threat to...
Australia’s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, on April 16, smacked X and Meta with legal notices to remove links to a video within 24 hours...
It was given top billing, a near absurd show intended to rope in content on a global social media platform, thereby denying all outside Australia...
In Australia, the demon of penal regulation clings in its stubbornness. Keeping government accountable and open to the suspicious eye of the public is...
You could almost sense the smacking of lips, accompanied by the rubbing of hands. The departure of Benny Gantz from the Israeli war cabinet ,...
War always commands its own appeal. It has its own frazzled laurels, the calling of its own worn poets tenured in propaganda. In battle, the poets...
The ashes had barely settled on a Rafah tent camp incinerated by an Israeli airstrike before the next, gorged massacre presented itself ...
The EU elections over June 6 to June 9 have presented a chaotically merry picture, certainly for those on the right of politics. Not that the...
Lock them up. The whole bally lot. The pollsters, the pundits, the parasitic hacks clinging to the life raft of politics in the hope of earning their...
Few have exerted as much influence on the tone, and outcome of elections, as Nigel Farage. Fewer have done so while failing to win office. In seven...
Australia’s modest $272.3 billion sovereign wealth fund is under the spotlight over where its funds are being deployed. A Freedom of Information...
Australia’s modest sovereign wealth fund, modestly standing at A$272.3 billion, has crawled into some trouble of late. Investors, morally twinged,...
Australia’s modest sovereign wealth fund, modestly standing at A$272.3 billion, has crawled into some trouble of late. Investors, morally twinged,...
By any reckoning, this was the move of a fool. A fool, it should be said, motivated by spite larded with caution. Evidently playing safe, adopting...
It was much like witnessing a boy killing flies, with a slight afterthought of apology. The spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces, Rear Admiral...
It was a pitiful sight. Soaked and literally washed-out, the feeble thin British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, made an announcement that caught many in...
France’s Emmanuel Macron can, at times, show himself at odds with the grime and gristle of grounded politics. Able to pack in various snatches of...
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton believes Israel’s leaders have been hard done by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and suggests Australia cut...
Throwing caution to the wind, grasping the nettle, and every little smidgen of opportunity, Australia’s opposition leader, Peter Dutton, was...
The application for arrest warrants by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim A.A. Khan in the Israel-Hamas War gives us a chance...
The British High Court of Justice decided on May 20 to allow whistleblower and WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange leave to appeal his...
The legal world was abuzz. The diplomatic channels of various countries raged and fizzed. It had been rumoured that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin...
David McBride, the man who revealed that Australia’s special forces in Afghanistan had committed atrocities and faced a compromised chain of...
It was faint, but there was more than just a flicker of hope. In the tormented (and tormenting) journey the WikiLeaks founder and publisher, Julian...
Things are looking dire for the Ukrainian war effort. Promises of victory are becoming even hollower than they were last summer, when US President...